Hulk smashed!

Upstart Donk Mark Begich has sent Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Pork) a nifty present for his 85th birthday — a one-way ticket back to Alaska.

Stevens was the ethically challenged engineer on a gravy train that has sent Alaska far more of the taxpayers’ money than it deserves during his six terms in office; let’s hope the pork gets sliced a little more thinly and spread around a bit more fairly in his absence.

The evil old fart, a self-styled “mean, miserable SOB” who famously donned an “Incredible Hulk” tie when preparing for legislative combat over drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, goes to his well-deserved fate not with a bang, but with a whimper: “I wouldn’t wish what I am going through on anyone, my worst enemy,” Mr. Stevens said Tuesday morning in the Capitol, according to The New York Times.

Gosh. Kermit was right — it ain’t easy being green.